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(Per : MR.JUSTICE M.S.SHAH) The present application is filed by an industrial unit which is manufacturing CPC Blue (Alpha), which is a chemical product with great potential for pollution. In the case of Pravinbhai J Patel vs. State of Gujarat & Ors., 1995 (2) GLR 1210 this Court had enumerated the products causing serious pollution and categorised them as specified items. CPC (Blue) was one of them.

2.The units manufacturing specified items were placed in Schedule I under the Environmental Audit Scheme which was framed by this Court vide the order dated 13.3.1997 in MCA No.326 of 1997. The Scheme was framed for ensuring that the industrial units manufacturing products with potential for causing pollution install proper equipments and operate the Environmental Management Systems for preventing and for containing pollution within the permissible norms prescribed by the relevant statutes, such as Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and also the norms stipulated under the Environment Protection Act, 1986. This Court required the industrial units with pollution potential to be subjected to internal audit as well as external audit in the matter of meeting relevant norms prescribed under the aforesaid legislations. As far as external audit is concerned, this Court had directed that the units manufacturing specified items (such as CPC Blue) be subjected to external audit of NEERI i.e. National Environmental Engineering Research Institute at Nagpur to study the report of the internal auditor, and (if necessary) to make inspection and take samples and thereafter to submit a report recommending improvements/upgradations to the Environmental Management System installed at a particular unit manufacturing a specified item. For this purpose, each unit manufacturing any specified item was initially required to deposit external auditor's fees of Rs.1,00,000/- with the Registry of this Court with a further clause that the unit may be required to pay further fees to the external auditor as provided in clause 6(c) of the Scheme.